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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Page \Page\ (p[=a]j), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr.
     Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh.
     akin to L. puer. Cf. {Pedagogue}, {Puerile}.]
     1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of
        high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor
        and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed


        for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar
        service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl
        employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
        Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United
        States Congress
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. A boy child. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold
        the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly
        molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
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     5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South
        American moths of the genus {Urania}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  page \page\, v. t.
     1. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to
        deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
        [PJC]
  
     3. To call a person on a {pager}.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Page \Page\, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere,
     pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being
     fastened together. Cf. {Pact}, {Pageant}, {Pagination}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paged} (p[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Paging} (p[=a]"j[i^]ng).]
     To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to
     furnish with folios.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  page
       n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or
            letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it
            contains
       2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and
          manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: {Sri Frederick
          Handley Page}]
       3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South
          (1853-1922) [syn: {Thomas Nelson Page}]
       4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: {pageboy}]
       5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies
          such as legislative functions and weddings
       6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as
          the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: {varlet}]
       v 1: call out somebody's name over a P.A. system
       2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
       3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: {foliate}, {paginate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  156 Moby Thesaurus words for "page":
     Ganymede, Hebe, acknowledgments, age, airline hostess,
     airline stewardess, announce, article, attendant, back,
     back matter, bastard title, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman,
     bibliography, bid come, book, bootblack, boots, cabin boy, caddie,
     call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in,
     call off, call out, call over, call the roll, call together,
     call up, cardboard, catch line, catchword, census, chapter,
     chore boy, cite, clause, colophon, conjure, conjure up, contents,
     contents page, convene, convoke, copyboy, copyright page, count,
     cupbearer, dedication, demand, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet,
     enumerate, episode, epoch, era, errand boy, errand girl, errata,
     evoke, fascicle, flyleaf, foliate, folio, footboy, fore edge,
     foreword, front matter, gathering, gofer, half-title page, head,
     hostess, imprint, indent, index, inscription, introduction, invoke,
     leaf, makeup, measure, messenger, muster, muster up, number,
     numerate, office boy, office girl, order up, orderly, paginate,
     paper, paragraph, passage, period, phase, phrase, point, poll,
     preconize, preface, preliminaries, quantify, quantize, quire, ream,
     recall, recto, requisition, reverso, run over, running title,
     section, send after, send for, sentence, servant, serve, sheet,
     side, signature, squire, stage, stationery, steward, stewardess,
     subpoena, subtitle, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons,
     table of contents, tail, tally, tell, tender, text, time, title,
     title page, trainbearer, trim size, type page, usher, verse, verso,
     yeoman
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  PAGE
       
          A typesetting language.
       
          ["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L.  Pierson, Wiley
          1972].
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  page
       
          1.  {paging}.
       
          2.  {web page}.
       
          (1997-04-10)
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Page, AZ (city, FIPS 51810)
    Location: 36.90425 N, 111.45782 W
    Population (1990): 6598 (2307 housing units)
    Area: 43.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Page, ND (city, FIPS 60500)
    Location: 47.15800 N, 97.57060 W
    Population (1990): 266 (144 housing units)
    Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 58064
  Page, NE (village, FIPS 38085)
    Location: 42.39904 N, 98.41741 W
    Population (1990): 191 (100 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 68766

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Page -- U.S. County in Iowa
     Population (2000):    16976
     Housing Units (2000): 7302
     Land area (2000):     534.824193 sq. miles (1385.188241 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.524760 sq. miles (1.359121 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    535.348953 sq. miles (1386.547362 sq. km)
     Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
     Location:             40.740012 N, 95.165970 W
     Headwords:
      Page
      Page, IA
      Page County
      Page County, IA
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Page -- U.S. County in Virginia
     Population (2000):    23177
     Housing Units (2000): 10557
     Land area (2000):     311.125060 sq. miles (805.810173 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    2.967319 sq. miles (7.685321 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    314.092379 sq. miles (813.495494 sq. km)
     Located within:       Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
     Location:             38.613462 N, 78.488469 W
     Headwords:
      Page
      Page, VA
      Page County
      Page County, VA
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Page, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
     Population (2000):    6809
     Housing Units (2000): 2606
     Land area (2000):     16.587771 sq. miles (42.962129 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.020560 sq. miles (0.053249 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    16.608331 sq. miles (43.015378 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            51810
     Located within:       Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
     Location:             36.914296 N, 111.459717 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Page, AZ
      Page
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Page, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
     Population (2000):    157
     Housing Units (2000): 95
     Land area (2000):     0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.244237 sq. miles (0.632572 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            38085
     Located within:       Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
     Location:             42.400412 N, 98.418682 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     68766
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Page, NE
      Page
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Page, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
     Population (2000):    225
     Housing Units (2000): 125
     Land area (2000):     0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.178694 sq. miles (0.462816 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            60500
     Located within:       North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
     Location:             47.157963 N, 97.570149 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     58064
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Page, ND
      Page
  

















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